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Anyone else think Dodos would be fun to have around again? Just slightly larger more docile chickens? Laying big stupid eggs on golf courses. Seems like a missed opportunity.
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Wish I could watch hilarious dodo videos on youtube 
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Apr 11, 2024 20:45
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Busters posted:Anyone else think Dodos would be fun to have around again? Just slightly larger more docile chickens? That'd be fun, I wonder what their actual behavior would be like. The descriptions always remind me of some of the larger farm breed chickens I've raised, with most of their wild traits bred out of them over the years - gentle and fun but very much on the dumber side. Like, dumb enough that you have to bring them back into the coop at night if they're free ranging, because otherwise they'll just fall asleep out in the open where a predator can walk up and grab them.
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Apr 11, 2024 21:42
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I bet they'd be good eating too!
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Apr 11, 2024 21:47
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Giant pterosaurs freak me out. loving vicious giraffe sized flying lizards who know no pity or remorse. You could barter with a T Rex I reckon, maybe even befriend a Spinosaurus. But a Quetzalcoatlus would go out of it's way to kill you, not for food or even for sport, just out of a sheer lack of inhibitions. Deformed Church posted:I bet they'd be good eating too! Apparently not! Their meat was described as "offensive and of no nourishment" where have I heard that before?
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Apr 11, 2024 22:53
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Whorelord posted:Giant pterosaurs freak me out. loving vicious giraffe sized flying lizards who know no pity or remorse. You could barter with a T Rex I reckon, maybe even befriend a Spinosaurus. But a Quetzalcoatlus would go out of it's way to kill you, not for food or even for sport, just out of a sheer lack of inhibitions. Im not trusting a bunch of white people from 1600s on what constitutes good food.
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Apr 11, 2024 23:00
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Telsa Cola posted:Im not trusting a bunch of white people from 1600s on what constitutes good food. People from the 1600s who hadn't had access to anything other than hardtack and salt cod for months still thinking that Dodos tastes awful makes me think that they did in fact, taste awful.
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Apr 11, 2024 23:05
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you probably just had to be there. buffoonery is the sweetest spice of all
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Apr 11, 2024 23:52
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Whorelord posted:People from the 1600s who hadn't had access to anything other than hardtack and salt cod for months still thinking that Dodos tastes awful makes me think that they did in fact, taste awful. Especially since there were reports from around the same time that Galapagos tortoises were especially delicious
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Apr 11, 2024 23:57
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newts posted:I’d give you partial credit on my evolution exam for this answer. I think it was my vertebrate bio prof who said "Hagfish aren't fish. But cows are fish. But hagfish aren't fish."
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Apr 12, 2024 00:00
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Captain Hygiene posted:That'd be fun, I wonder what their actual behavior would be like. The descriptions always remind me of some of the larger farm breed chickens I've raised, with most of their wild traits bred out of them over the years - gentle and fun but very much on the dumber side. Like, dumb enough that you have to bring them back into the coop at night if they're free ranging, because otherwise they'll just fall asleep out in the open where a predator can walk up and grab them. Having spent time around chickens, I've always thought the "dumb as a dodo" stereotype was probably slightly inaccurate. A lot of small ground birds are very dumb. Chickens can be too dumb to live and too dumb to die. Like the quokkas, dodo's lacked predators. So they probably weren't dumb (or any dumber than a chicken) they just lacked flight or fight behaviors. So they would probably be cute pets.
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Apr 12, 2024 00:00
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Telsa Cola posted:Im not trusting a bunch of white people from 1600s on what constitutes good food. maybe they tasted like seagulls which are apparently so abhorrent that no culture on earth eats them Knormal posted:The first scientific paper analyzing a dinosaur bone concluded it was the fossilized scrotum of a giant from the Bible. now that's some good poo poo Buce fucked around with this message at 00:04 on Apr 12, 2024 |
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Apr 12, 2024 00:01
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Especially since there were reports from around the same time that Galapagos tortoises were especially delicious The QI (Quite Interesting) panel discussing how the tortoises took too long to describe and name because of their deliciousness is one of my favorite parts of the show: https://youtu.be/zPggB4MfPnk?si=7aeO5OZToS6noa2D
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Apr 12, 2024 00:07
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People have eaten seagulls.
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Apr 12, 2024 00:13
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Knormal posted:The first scientific paper analyzing a dinosaur bone concluded it was the fossilized scrotum of a giant from the Bible. Buce posted:now that's some good poo poo As the link mentions, the description was likely a joke but it was correctly following the Linnaean system of binomial nomenclature and it was legitimately published which technically established precedence so according to the rules that dinosaur should actually be called Scrotum humanum in every museum and text book. Paleontologists quietly decided to ignore the official rules just this once and renamed it Megalosaurus bucklandii. Edit: goddamn, they were still arguing over this as recently as 1993 quote:According to the rules of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN), the name Scrotum humanum in principle had priority over Megalosaurus because it was published first. That Brookes understood that the stone did not actually represent a pair of petrified testicles was irrelevant. Merely the fact that the name had not been used in subsequent literature meant that it could be removed from competition for priority, because the ICZN states that if a name has never been considered valid after 1899, it can be made a nomen oblitum, an invalid "forgotten name". Snowglobe of Doom fucked around with this message at 00:23 on Apr 12, 2024 |
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Apr 12, 2024 00:18
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It's fool's gold to think you can just toy with lifeforms and their behaviors. Poor Lystrosaurus....
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Apr 12, 2024 00:22
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titty_baby_ posted:People have eaten seagulls. bad luck to eat a seabird
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Apr 12, 2024 00:42
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:As the link mentions, the description was likely a joke but it was correctly following the Linnaean system of binomial nomenclature and it was legitimately published which technically established precedence so according to the rules that dinosaur should actually be called Scrotum humanum in every museum and text book. Like manospondylus being renamed TYRANT LIZARD KIIIIIING
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Apr 12, 2024 01:32
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Tree Bucket posted:Like manospondylus being renamed TYRANT LIZARD KIIIIIING Good, gently caress ED Cope 
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Apr 12, 2024 01:56
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I think it was in a Shackleton book how after a long period of no good food they came across an albatross nest with a couple juvenile birds in it. The author explained how sailors had a strong kinship with the albatross but they were famished and full of guilt and remorse grabbed a bird, cooked it up and ate every last bit of it including the marrow and went back for the other bird later on.
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Apr 12, 2024 02:03
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verbal enema posted:wish I had a tiny elephant In the original Jurassic Park novel John Hammond had a tiny genetically engineered elephant he used to wow investors, like the size of a cat. Except it bit everyone and was always sick, on account of the messed up genetic engineering.
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Apr 12, 2024 03:44
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I like platybelodon, gomphothere, amybelodon and other weird elephants and so-called "shovel-tuskers" there was this long period of the Pleistocene where elephants kept evolving hosed up weird as poo poo lower teeth     aaaaaa
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Leperflesh posted:I like platybelodon, gomphothere, amybelodon and other weird elephants and so-called "shovel-tuskers" some animals deserve to be extinct
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Apr 13, 2024 03:14
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ChubbyChecker posted:some animals deserve to be extinct We all deserve whatever we get....
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oh i said pleistocene but that's wrong these were oligocene guys sorry bout that
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Leperflesh posted:I like platybelodon, gomphothere, amybelodon and other weird elephants and so-called "shovel-tuskers" I'd completely forgotten about those things. Alongside Bigfoot and cliche grey aliens, I think those were the things that unsettled me the most as a kid in book illustrations. So, thanks for the memories 
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Leperflesh posted:I like platybelodon, gomphothere, amybelodon and other weird elephants and so-called "shovel-tuskers" I want a time machine to go check these out. Darth Brooks fucked around with this message at 05:13 on Apr 13, 2024 |
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Apr 13, 2024 04:46
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Leperflesh posted:I like platybelodon, gomphothere, amybelodon and other weird elephants and so-called "shovel-tuskers" Literally loling at these goofy freaks
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ChubbyChecker posted:some animals deserve to be extinct Not these guys though, these guys are cool. Big ol' underbite elephants
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Leperflesh posted:I like platybelodon, gomphothere, amybelodon and other weird elephants and so-called "shovel-tuskers" They all look like they're saying "guyyyys hold on guyyss"
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Apr 13, 2024 05:57
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every single drawing wants to show off those teeth so literally 100% of them are going "aaaAAAHHHH"
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Leperflesh posted:every single drawing wants to show off those teeth so literally 100% of them are going "aaaAAAHHHH" It's always hilarious when it happens. Sometimes the critters are going "aaaAAAHHHH" and sometimes they're doing a Professor Frink impersonation Snowglobe of Doom posted:The toxodon was a boring basic-bitch hornless rhino thing which was completely uninteresting except for two facts: 1) Charles Darwin was one of the first people to collect toxodon fossils, paying a Uruguayan farmer 18 pence for a skull, and 2) it has some big-rear end novelty nerd teeth: There's a lot more wacky paleo art in that old PYF thread
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Apr 13, 2024 06:15
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Hurf Durf I'm extinct!
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Funky See Funky Do posted:Do you ever think that while you were out walking today you may have thoughtlessly crushed the plant or insect carrying the mutation that would have led to whole new branch on the tree of life? That you just sprayed disinfectant on a bacteria that only eats cancerous cells? Every time I jerk off and wipe the jizz up with kleenex and then flush that poo poo I congratulate myself that "today I have not potentially sired the next hitler". (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Asterite34 posted:This thread cannot go on without hearing my favorite success story in all of natural history: the Lystrosaurus if i had a time machine id go chill with these dudes for all eternity.
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Apr 13, 2024 17:10
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Not facts, but I've always liked The Ugly Chickens.
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flubber nuts posted:if i had a time machine id go chill with these dudes for all eternity. They were small dog sized, so imagine rolling one on its back and giving it some belly rubs.
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It looks like you're trying to evolve. Would you like help?  This friend is the Diplomoceras. I don't know why he's like this, and you'd have to go back 70 million years to ask.
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Apr 13, 2024 22:06
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why the long shell
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If you know of a better way to hold your ancient stacks of giant papers together I'd like to hear it.
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